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Posted by ryuzaki0 on Tuesday March 2, 2004 @05:45AM from the kill-me-now dept.

theodp writes "Cubby from New Jersey has a passion for peanut butter. Dedeaux from Baton Rouge likes to suck his brother's ear. Spike from the East Bay just wants to kiss pretty girls. Two months after computer and canine geeks in San Francisco launched a social networking site for dogs, 8,000+ pooches have their own Web page on Dogster.com, complete with mug shots, personal stories and listings of likes and pet peeves."

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Barking mad by Space+cowboy · 2004-03-02 05:45 · Score: 5, Insightful

The problem with a 'free society' is that some people have far far too much time on their hands :-) All the more kudos to the site-creators for finding an oft-overlooked gap in the market for a site that most people (the sane ones) never suspected would exist...

Oh yeah, and (from the article):

Rosemary Pepper is a writer and founder of an online feminist magazine who wrote the copy for the Dogster site. She is the "I Like It Ruff" columnist.
/me definitely doesn't mention anything about spicy feminists liking it "ruff", 'cos that would be politically incorrect [grin]

Simon

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1. Re:Barking mad by ekephart · 2004-03-02 06:13 · Score: 5, Insightful
  
  "The problem with a 'free society' is that some people have far far too much time on their hands
  
  I thought this was a GOAL of a free society: to allow progress to give us free time for leisure.
  
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My dog... by bonytony · 2004-03-02 05:46 · Score: 5, Funny

Likes to sniff butts!
1. Re:My dog... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-02 05:51 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Your dog is therefore already qualified to be a Slashdot editor.
Dogster.com? by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-02 05:46 · Score: 5, Funny

And here I was thinking it was a dating site for fugly chicks!
where my bitches at? by SoupGuru · 2004-03-02 05:47 · Score: 5, Funny

oh yeah, had to be said. apologies.

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Urban Legend Time. by saintlupus · 2004-03-02 05:48 · Score: 5, Funny

Cubby from New Jersey has a passion for peanut butter.

[cue porno bassline]

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slashdot is pretty much the same... by Anonymous Coward · 2004-03-02 05:51 · Score: 5, Insightful

slashdot is pretty much the same than that doggie site... imagine those pet-holders thinkin about a weblog all about computers and linuxes and geeky stuff. Theyd probably think the same what we think of them...
OT by *coughs+loudly* · 2004-03-02 05:52 · Score: 5, Interesting

What a wildly inappropriate slashdot article. Eight thousand pictures of dogs on the internet? Wow, that's really stretching what's possible with our infrastructure in a geek-friendly way.
This is a great site.... by malelder · 2004-03-02 06:22 · Score: 5, Funny

For me to poop on!

Sorry :/

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Re:My Family. by Cryp2Nite · 2004-03-02 06:28 · Score: 5, Insightful

To quote the parent:
I truely endorse this website as any steps for us to make their life happy...
Trust me when i say your dogs don't care. If you want to make their life happier, take them out to play more often, buy them a bone or a toy, spend some more time with them.

Putting your pooch on the web has nothing to do with with their happiness. It has to do with the owners being goofballs ;-)